[Phpwm] [OT] Top Posting

Iain Wallace iain at strawp.net
Mon Dec 12 09:49:40 GMT 2005


> On 12/11/05, Iain Wallace <iain at strawp.net> wrote:
>> Also: Please stop top-posting!
>
> I dont wish to start a religious war, but is it list policy not to top
> post? I use google mail (home) and outlook (work) to write my emails
> and I am therefor a top poster, and infact with google mail I dont
> mind where people post as it is inteligent enough to quote out the old
> parts of the mail, very useful! As a preference I prefer top posting,
> only because I sift through so much mail and it save me having to find
> the new part of the mail.
>
When your conversation is only between two people it's much easier to
track the conversation if you top-post than if there are a lot of people
posting.

As the old sig goes:

Because it makes things very difficult to follow!
Why is top posting bad?



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